CodeIgniter Installer
General Information
CI Installer is a starting point for giving your downloadable CodeIgniter
application an installer.
If you're making a CI app that is designed to be downloaded and self-hosted,
CI Installer provides an easy way for the user to get the database structure and
configuration in place.
NOTE: This is to be used as a starting point. You will have to customize it to
make it work for your application, and you might have to dig into the code
a little bit. It's pretty simple, so if you have a basic understanding of PHP
you shouldn't have trouble.
General Instructions
- Download CI Installer, rename the folder to 'install' and put it in the root
directory of your CI install (as a sibling to the /system folder). - Make an SQL dump of your desired database structure and intial data and paste
it into assets/install.sql - Open up index.php and change "Your App" in the to your app's name.
- If your CI application folder is a sibling of your system folder instead of a
child (this is common), do a find/replace to replace 'system/application' with
'application' in each of this project's files. - If you have .htaccess file in CodeIgniter root folder, change the line:
RewriteCond $1 !^(index.php, img, css, js, robots.txt, favicon.ico, update.php, install.php)
to:
RewriteCond $1 !^(index.php, img, css, js, install, robots.txt, favicon.ico, update.php)
- In index.php, around line 37 change 'welcome' to the URL of the page
(in CodeIgniter) that you want the user to be redirected to after installing. - Visit http://example.com/path/to/yourapp/install and see how it goes.
If you have problems or have recommendations, please file an issue at
http://github.com/mikecrittenden/ci-installer/ or else it won't get fixed!